• 文献标题:   Liquid Crystal Size Selection of Large-Size Graphene Oxide for Size-Dependent N-Doping and Oxygen Reduction Catalysis
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LEE KE, KIM JE, MAITI UN, LIM J, HWANG JO, SHIM J, OH JJ, YUN T, KIM SO
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, liquid crystal, doping, oxygen reduction reaction, catalyst
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Korea Adv Inst Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   68
  • DOI:   10.1021/nn5024544
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Graphene oxide (GO) is aqueous-dispersible oxygenated graphene, which shows colloidal discotic liquid crystallinity. Many properties of GO-based materials, including electrical conductivity and mechanical properties, are limited by the small flake size of GO. Unfortunately, typical sonochemical exfoliation of GO from graphite generally leads to a broad size and shape distribution. Here, we introduce a facile size selection of large-size GO exploiting liquid crystallinity and investigate the size-dependent N-doping and oxygen reduction catalysis. In the biphasic GO dispersion where both isotropic and liquid crystalline phases are equilibrated, large-size GO flakes (>20 mu m) are spontaneously concentrated within the liquid crystalline phase. N-Doping and reduction of the size-selected GO exhibit that N-dopant type is highly dependent on GO flake size. Large-size GO demonstrates quaternary dominant N-doping and the lowest onset potential (-0.08 V) for oxygen reduction catalysis, signifying that quaternary N-dopants serve as principal catalytic sites in N-doped graphene.